HTC Diamond and the Samsung Omnia (WM6.1 FACEOFF)

[Mike20PR]

It's PocketPC playoffs and HTC are giving Samsung a match at the GSM Arena. With two of the stars of the season arriving in our office all at once, we thought it's a heck of an opportunity for some Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia game-set-match with a pinch of iPhone flavor. We got two aces up to the challenge, so sit back and stretch out. Ah well, get that six-pack too and join us for the kick-off.

Diamond over Omnia:

VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)
TouchFLO 3D Home screen (better than Omnia's Touchwiz UI)
Nicer design
More compact body
Lighter weight
Active magnetic stylus (Omnia has no stylus slot)
Touch-sensitive scroll wheel (better than Omnia's optical joystick)
Better sunlight legibility (by a small margin)
Standard miniUSB slot (as opposed to Samsung's proprietary custom plus)
Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory
Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)
Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones
Better video playback performance

Omnia over Diamond:

Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2", 240 x 400 pixels)
Has a better, more solid build and finish
Almost double battery life
Better CPU performance (by a nice margin according to software benchmarks)
Quad-band GSM support (Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands)
microSD card slot (Diamond has none)
8 or 16 GB of storage memory (Diamond has 4GB)
Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)
TV-out (Diamond lacks that)
Landscape QWERTY keyboard (Diamond has one but only in browser)
Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off
Comes with DivX video support (Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed)
Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter

ALL THE INFO AND SPECS

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

[D/\SH]

It's PocketPC playoffs and HTC are giving Samsung a match at the GSM Arena. With two of the stars of the season arriving in our office all at once, we thought it's a heck of an opportunity for some Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia-Diamond-Omnia game-set-match with a pinch of iPhone flavor. We got two aces up to the challenge, so sit back and stretch out. Ah well, get that six-pack too and join us for the kick-off.

Diamond over Omnia:

VGA display (2.8-inch, 480 x 640 pixels)
TouchFLO 3D Home screen (better than Omnia's Touchwiz UI)
Nicer design
More compact body
Lighter weight
Active magnetic stylus (Omnia has no stylus slot)
Touch-sensitive scroll wheel (better than Omnia's optical joystick)
Better sunlight legibility (by a small margin)
Standard miniUSB slot (as opposed to Samsung's proprietary custom plus)
Dedicated graphics chip with 64MB memory
Comes with the amusing Teeter game (uses the accelerometer)
Has pre-installed YouTube client and MP3 Trimmer application for ringtones
Better video playback performance

Omnia over Diamond:

Bigger, though lower-res display (3.2", 240 x 400 pixels)
Has a better, more solid build and finish
Almost double battery life
Better CPU performance (by a nice margin according to software benchmarks)
Quad-band GSM support (Diamond has two versions to cover all the four bands)
microSD card slot (Diamond has none)
8 or 16 GB of storage memory (Diamond has 4GB)
Much better 5 megapixel camera (better processing, higher resolution, face and smile detection, geotagging)
TV-out (Diamond lacks that)
Landscape QWERTY keyboard (Diamond has one but only in browser)
Auto screen rotation is available in all applications and can be switched off
Comes with DivX video support (Diamond has none, but DivX players can be installed)
Has pre-installed a custom Alarms app, a Video editor and a unit converter

ALL THE INFO AND SPECS

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond_vs_samsung_i900_omnia-review-262.php

i say the diamond over the omnia.

[Mike20PR]

i say the diamond over the omnia.

i say omnia cuz its soooo purty!!! lol and im liking the 5mp camera, 8-16gigs of memory PLUS a micro SD slot (also the screen design that i crave for my next model)

or maybe cuz i like to disagree with everybody :brows:

[NINE'SICKS]

man oh man is this gunna be a HOT TOPIC... i wanna say diamond, but i keep thinking of all i can do with a 5mp camera and the 16gigs WITH micro sd card slot...and im sure dash or anyone else on the site will figure out a way to have the OMNIA run the DIAMOND inter face, so if we give it some time well have the best of both worlds.
either way **** THE IPHONE !!! lol

[NINE'SICKS]

DAMN! i need to be quicker with my posts... oh well, btw the phone is purrrrrrty !! lol

[Mike20PR]

DAMN! i need to be quicker with my posts... oh well, btw the phone is purrrrrrty !! lol

LMAO the downside is that Sprint most likely wont get this model and at&t plans suk~!!!

[NINE'SICKS]

hell yeah they suck...at least if verizon had it that would b a lil better then at&t... well atleast here in california. the good thing is the company i work for has a contract with at&t alot of people have the iphone.. so if i buy the phone, they shouldnt have a problem paying my bill. i hope...

[screwedking86]

I love both off em but i'ma wait for dash and the others to have fun with em before i make my choice......iphone some shit just had to be said
lol lovin my mogul

[mike0122]

In my opinion I fell like I would like to have the Omnia only because it is all new to me. I have had HTCs phone for a long time. I know the the Diamond is a lot different than my wing or any of the other HTC phones that is out now but you can still tell its a HTC phone but then why totally change a great thing. One thing that HTC and all cell phone makers should take heed from is the 5 mp camera on the Omnia. 2 or 3 mp just don't cut it any more. My digatal Rebel is just to big to carry around all the time and my crappy 2 mp camera on my phone is a joke. Anyway I'm sure the next phone that I get will be the HTC pro. I guess after all is said and done I'm an HTC fan.